Thill-support.



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THILL SUPPORT.

(Application filed Jan. 10, 1899.) (No Model.)

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THILL SUPPORT.

$PECIFIOATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 642,267, dated January30, 1900.

Application filed January 10, 1899. Serial No. 701,694. (No model.)

.To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, SAMUEL SHREFFLER, a citizen of the United States,residing at J oliet, in the county of Will and State of Illinois, havemade certain new and useful Improvements in Thin-Supporters, of whichthe following is a specification, reference being had therein to theaccompanying drawings, and the letters of reference thereon, forming apart of this specification.

This invention relates to that class of supporters adapted to hold thethills of a carriage raised in an upward-extendin g position, so thatthe carriage to which they are attached may occupy a less floorspacethan with unsupported thills; and it consists of a bar having one endbeveled, of a slide placed on the bar and adjustably held thereon bymeans of a set-screw, and of a hook made integral with the slide, whichconstruction and arrangement of the parts are fully set forth andexplained in the following specification and pointed out in the annexedclaim.

The object of this invention is to so construct a supporter of thisclass that it will be adapted for service with all the various kinds ofcarriages commonly in use, and by reason of the beveled shape of thesupporter-bar end and the adjustability and reversibility of the hookedslide placed on the bar such object is attained.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a side view of the supporter;Fig. 2, an illustrative view representing the supporter attached to acarriage, and Figs. 3 and I perspective views of the adjustable hookedslides of the supporters.

Referring to the said drawings, A represents the supporter-bar,providedwith the enlarged beveled end B, having attached to the face of thebevel a pad 0, which further extends about and partially up the backedge a set thumb-screw F, turned into the slide and against the bar.Made as a part of said slide is a hook D, which is preferably padded, asrepresented at N.

In service in attaching the supporter to end-spring carriages, asrepresented in Fig. 2, the thills are first lifted. The supporter isthen placed with its slide-hook D over the spring cross-bar and with thebeveled hook B resting against the lower portion of the carriage-spring,whereupon the thills are lowered slightly, so that their crossbar willrest against the upper end portion of the supporter-bar.

In attaching the supporter to side-spring carriages and other typeswhere the springbar is low the slide E is reversed on bar A, asrepresented by dotted lines in Fig. 1, and lowered sufficiently to meetthe spring-bar, and in such instance the back padded end part of the barA will rest against the carriage-axle or some low-down part of the carriage.

The beveled end portion 13 of the supporter is for adapting that end tobe adjusted up or down to bring difierent points of the bevel to bearagainst the carriage to accommodate the required position of the upperend of the bar and also accommodate the various makes of carriages.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and useful,anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is as follows:

The herein-described chill-supporter comprising the bar having theenlarged beveled end portion, and the slide arranged on said bar and adjustably held thereon by means of the set-screw, and provided with thesidereaching hook, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

SAMUEL SI-IREFFLER.

Witnesses:

WM. J. IIUTOHINS, B. P. SHREFFLER.

